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and then said, " Cheat and liar, your words are 

 false. I know that you substituted yoiu' earth for 

 my flower whilst I slept. Be it so. I will go 

 hence. You shall remain ; but so long as your 

 teaching endures, so long shall cheats and liars 

 endure on this earth. In the future I shall come 

 again and establish the true faith, and when that 

 time comes your supremacy will end." So saying, 

 he disappeared. His second advent, according to 

 the books of prophecy, is due within the next few 

 years. Hence the lamas' hatred and fear of any- 

 thing which will destroy their influence. 



